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Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara are the names that come to mind immediately. Ponting perhaps. Maybe Kallis. Run machines, we call...

Career Information

Test debut vs England at Lord's, Jun 20, 1996

Last Test vs Australia at Adelaide Oval, Jan 24, 2012

ODI debut vs Sri Lanka at The Padang, Apr 03, 1996

Last ODI vs England at Sophia Gardens, Sep 16, 2011

T20 debut vs England at Emirates Old Trafford, Aug 31, 2011

Last T20vs England at Emirates Old Trafford, Aug 31, 2011

IPL debut vs Kolkata Knight Riders at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Apr 18, 2008

Last IPL vs Mumbai Indians at Eden Gardens, May 24, 2013

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Who’s the greatest batsman in the world?

Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara are the names that come to mind immediately. Ponting perhaps. Maybe Kallis.

Run machines

, we call them. And if you’ve watched them bat, you’re likely to agree. They were so good at their craft that they had basically invented their own technique...

However, there exists another breed of cricketers in the same league who have had to rely more on hard work rather than cricketing aptitude. They tend to develop a standard technique like a computer-based batting simulator would. Through hard work and perseverance, they have crafted an airtight technique through conventional means and made it work in international cricket; a technique so perfect and versatile that it suits all conditions, and works equally well in attack and defence.

Rahul Dravid, also known as, the Wall – a rather clever term coined by a journalist, according to Dravid himself, that could later be modified, depending on his batting form. Prospective modifications include “crack in the wall” or “hole in the wall”. Nevertheless, if there was ever a batting technique that could be used as a blueprint to create a computer simulation for cricket shots, it has to be Rahul Dravid’s.

A blistering 95 on debut at Lord’s, perhaps overshadowed by Sourav Ganguly’s 131. A gritty 217 at the Oval in 2002, a chanceless, flawless 148 on a green Leeds surface, shielding the middle-order from the live-grass and paving the way for Ganguly’s fluent 128 and Tendulkar’s flamboyant 193. It’s not often that a Sachin knock gets overshadowed, but Dravid’s 148 was probably the best knock he’s ever played; even better than each of his 5 double-hundreds. I say this because most gritty knocks on green surfaces are accompanied by a bit of luck. This required nothing. It is chance-less. No plays and misses, a couple of close leaves, but Dravid had the edge throughout. And he won the battle, having played out the new ball and scored a century.

In 2007, India won the series under his leadership (although in terms of batting this tour wasn’t up to his standards: 1 fifty in 6 innings). However, he still looked comfortable while batting, especially with the first part of his job: shielding the middle-order from the new ball in case the openers fail.

And 2011 was just a one-man show. Sachin showed up and made 3 fifties, including a 90 at the Oval, but it was Dravid, with 3 hundreds, including one at Lord’s that he missed out on on his debut, who ran a one-man show in England as the other aging stalwarts of the Indian team had fitness issues and failed miserably. In Nottingham, he carried the bat throughout the innings for a hundred, opened the batting again when the follow-on was enforced.

So clearly, a man with a high-back lift has managed to do quite well in England. Specifically against the new-ball on fresh grassy surfaces. It doesn’t get more challenging than that for a subcontinent batsman who has grown up using his feet to get to the pitch of the ball on rank turners.

Rahul Dravid stats reflected that of an unsung hero: do the hard work for the team, get overshadowed by a (metaphorically) colossal figure, and just walk away with a modest smile on your face.

Rahul Dravid was basically Sachin from the ’90s: A middle-order batsman facing the new ball and grinding it out to protect the middle-order so that the giants can come in and play their shots. He, however, had more capable and stable batsmen to support him, and a captain that understood him and stood by him.

But Rahul Dravid is anything but delusional.

In a team with a genius like Sachin, a sorcerer like Laxman, swashbucklers like Sehwag and Dhoni, and the ever-so-volatile Sourav Ganguly, India needed a stabilizer. And they found one in Rahul Dravid.

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Rahul Dravid known as 'Mr Dependable' or 'The Wall' is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all-time. He played international cricket for India from 1996 to 2012 and in these 16 years, he took Indian cricket team to new heights with the bat as well as with his leadership. In these years he created many Rahul Dravid records and here is a look at some of the records held by him.

A-List of Records held by Rahul Dravid in International Cricket -

1 - Rahul Dravid was the first Indian captain to win a Test match on South African soil. He achieved this feat in 2006's Johannesburg Test.

3 - In 2007, Rahul Dravid became only the third Indian captain to win a Test series in England. Ajit Wadekar (1971) and Kapil Dev (1986) are the other two Indian captains.

4 - Rahul Dravid is the only Indian batsman to score four consecutive hundreds in Test cricket. He achieved this milestone in 2002.

Rahul Dravid 4 consecutive Test hundreds -

115 vs ENG at Nottingham

148 vs ENG at Leeds

217 vs ENG at The Oval

100* vs WI at Mumbai

7 - Rahul Dravid (13288 Test and 10889 ODI runs) is one of the seven batsmen who have scored 10,000 or more runs in both Tests and ODIs. Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, Brian Lara, Jacques Kallis, Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardena too have achieved this feat.

88 - Rahul Dravid holds the record of having been involved in most number of hundred runs partnerships in Test cricket. He was involved in total 88 hundred runs partnerships in his 164 Tests career.

210 - Rahul Dravid took total 210 catches as a fielder in Test cricket - the most by any fielder in the world.  

461 - With 461 runs Rahul Dravid was the leading run-scorer in ICC Cricket World Cup 1999 which was played in England.

6920 - Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar scored 6920 runs as a pair with 20 hundred plus runs stands in Test cricket - the most partnership runs and hundred plus runs stands by any pair in the world.

7690 - Rahul Dravid scored 7690 runs away from home in Test cricket - the second-most runs by a batsman away from home in Test cricket after Sachin Tendulkar (8705).

31258 - Rahul Dravid faced a total of 31,258 balls in his Test career - the most balls faced by any batsman in the world and he is the only batsman to face more than 30,000 balls in Test cricket till date.